Articles for category: Growth

2 months ago

Greg Thomas

It’s Supposed to Take a Long Time

10,000 hours of effort do not happen in one day. Your token consumption is not an adequate metric of how long it takes for you to accomplish your work. There are things in life that are designed and meant to take a long time to get there and figure them out. After drawing for 10ish years, I’ve finally found the pencil I like the most to work with – the right weight, feel, and lead composition. Things are meant to take time to get them done.

Thinking is Good

We’re being reconditioned right now to not think because it takes too long. I spent 3 hours this past weekend thinking about how to approach some problems, what would and would not work, and running through the scenarios in my head. I’m still running through a coding problem with AI that is encroaching on 5 hours, trying to get something to work that should just work (based on the APIs). Thinking is good, thinking is important, you should plan time to think about solutions to problems and not only barrel through them as fast as you can.    

2 months ago

Greg Thomas

Adhering to the Schedule

Everything is about consistency and keeping the schedule. If you can do that, you’re aces. The problem is adhering to the schedule – it flips and flops as external circumstances outside of your control invade your precious time as you seek to complete all that is in front of you. So then the question becomes, do you have too much in your schedule to get things done, or are you underestimating the time to get them done? What do you do? I think I will forever be thinking about how to optimize the perfect schedule, when really I just have

The Value in Your Work

There is value in everything you do. The problem is that not everyone can see it. So you need to show them. That’s the hard part about value – it’s hard to measure, can be hard to show, and doesn’t fall into our traditional boxes of measurement. But when we see it, that’s when we do everything in the world to protect it and nurture it. Find your Value.

A Blogger’s Value

I couldn’t resolve an issue with AI this week. I went online and found a guy’s blog that walked through the issue on the first click. I’m not saying one is better than the other. I’m saying there is still a space for learning through people and we should not forget that.